Walter Winslow
Originally from Hurdle Mills, North Carolina, Walt returned to North Carolina after attending high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, to get his undergraduate degree at UNC. At UNC, he earned a BS in public health, focused on health policy and management, as well as two minors in business administration and computer science. Around the UNC community, Walt held leadership positions across multiple professional, academic, and community-related extracurricular activities. The first of his key leadership positions was serving as copresident for the Jon Curtis Student Enrichment Fund, where he led fundraising efforts to support student extracurricular enrichment activities for academic or professional purposes. He also served as fundraising chair for the UNC chapter of Timmy Global Health, where he helped fund public-health missions around the globe, staffed by UNC students and faculty. Walt was also a key member of other professional clubs in the business and public health schools and served on local consulting projects.
Walt pledged at the Lodge in fall 2014 and quickly became an active member of our fraternity leadership. His most significant role was serving as assistant treasurer (#4.5) and then treasurer (#4) in his junior and senior years. Prior to that, he served as a rush chair for three semesters, a social chair for two semesters, a pledge trainer for one semester, and a #5 for one semester. He also lived in the Lodge for six semesters in both the Sleeping Porch (2 years) and the Boardroom (1 year). He regards the friends he made at the Lodge across those four years as many of his closest friends to this day.
After leaving the Lodge and UNC, Walt worked at McKinsey and Company across healthcare projects as a business analyst and fellow in McKinsey’s Center for US Health System Reform, before leaving to join an early-stage healthcare technology startup: Stellar Health. Stellar Health focuses on supporting primary care providers to best care for their patients under value-based payment arrangements. At Stellar, Walt was promoted twice within his first year at the company and helped with two successful venture capital fundraising initiatives.
Walt states that his experiences at the Lodge and UNC helped him refine his interest in an MBA program by exposing him to the highest caliber of student entrepreneurs and building his professional network, ultimately driving him to take his GMAT while an active brother in the Lodge and to apply to and be accepted at Stanford several years later. Within his MBA program, he is focusing on entrepreneurship in healthcare and has coordinated his coursework, extracurricular activities, and internships around this emphasis. His ultimate goal is to start his own healthcare technology services business, and he regards the Stanford MBA as the best path to pursue this aspiration.